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Anyone Object?

Despite the influence of Hollywood and reality TV shows, asking your wedding guests if they have any objections to the marriage is not a customary thing to include in your ceremony.

The practice of asking if anyone objects dates back to the gold rush days when men would travel to the west coast across heartland of America marrying every farmer’s daughter along the way for shelter and cash, without any intention on staying put, married, or raising a family.

I don’t ask it, and most ministers don’t ask it, and no one needs to ask it because it is a little hard to hide the fact that you’re already married to someone else now that the internet makes every record easily available to anyone who knows how to search Google.

And, it is also the reason why nearly every state in our nation no longer requires witnesses to the wedding ceremony.